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Polls, data centers and San Francisco's mayor shape the midterms

Trafalgar polling has Cooper at forty-eight point eight percent to Whatley's forty point nine in North Carolina; the data center fight is also reaching swing states.

On air: Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock on BBN Tonight
Published 7:39 PM ET, Monday, October 12, 2026

Photo: Craig Howell from San Carlos, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock on this story, from BBN Tonight at 7:39 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are New York Post's, the jokes are ours.

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At a glance

First reported by New York Post: “San Francisco’s mayor ditched woke and cashed in”, with reporting from CBS News.
Covered on BBN on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 7:39 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock.
Topics: San Francisco, GOP.
BBN covered this story before: Former SF top cop and daughter shot dead by police sergeant husband (October 12).

The real story

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New York PostSan Francisco’s mayor ditched woke and cashed in
CBS NewsData center boom puts GOP in a bind before midterm elections

What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNext, CBS News reports that Cleanview Research found seventy-five percent of data centers under construction, and eighty percent of those in planning, are in mostly Republican states, while public opposition to them keeps growing.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the party that loves a ribbon cutting now has the most buildings that hum all night. Lucky them!
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt is a real bind: jobs and investment on one side, neighbors worried about land, power and noise on the other, and it is already a swing-state issue.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThen the loudest voter in November is a server rack.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd in a New York Post column, the argument is that San Francisco's mayor rejected radical left dogma and focused on the actual work of running a city.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Post says he cashed in, and I'm sure every side will be thrilled to claim him by Thursday.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat is an opinion piece, and the Post's editors clearly think the lesson travels beyond one city.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA data center deserves a debate podium, honestly.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt has been humming through this whole segment, Vera, and nobody has asked it a single question.

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